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Latino registered voters rank education, the cost of living, jobs and health care as the most important issues in the fall campaign, with crime lagging a bit behind those four and the war in Iraq and immigration still farther behind. On each of these seven issues, Obama is strongly favored over McCain--by lopsided ratios ranging from about three-to-one on education, jobs, health care, the cost of living and immigration, to about two-to-one on Iraq and crime.I don't know if they are ranked in order (too lazy to look at report), but I would put those as my top four. So in a nutshell, even though I've been MIA, I feel I'm still in touch with the Latino heart. After all, the Latino heart is a human heart, and these issues are what all Americans are concerned about. I'd be curious to what issues some readers and writers of Latino Blogs are deemed most important.
2 Tough
Questions
Question
1:
If
you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who
were
deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had
syphilis, would
you recommend that she have an abortion?
Read the
next question before looking at the response for this one.
Question
2:
It is
time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts.
Here are the
facts about the three candidates. Who would you vote for?
Candidate A
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults
with astrologist
He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8
to 10 martinis a day.
Candidate B
He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until
noon, used opium in
college and drinks a quart of whiskey every
evening.
Candidate
C
He is a decorated war hero.
He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an
occasional beer and never
cheated on his wife.
Which of these
candidates would be our choice?
Decide first... no
peeking, then jump over for the response.
Since finally succeeding his ailing 81-year-old brother, Fidel, in February, Mr. Castro, 76, who appeared before hundreds of thousands of Cubans at a May Day rally on Thursday here in the capital, has been busy with a flurry of changes. In the last eight weeks he has also opened access to cellphones, lifted the ban on Cubans using tourist hotels and granted farmers the right to manage unused land for profit.
He tested the DNA of his relatives, along with some of the parishioners at Albuquerque’s St. Edwin’s Church, where he works. As word got out, others in the community began contacting him. So Sanchez expanded the effort to include Hispanics throughout the state.
Of the 78 people tested, 30 are positive for the marker of the Cohanim, whose genetic line remains strong because they rarely married non-Jews throughout a history spanning up to 4,000 years.
I don't know what is wrong with some Latinos - I embrace my mix, how 'bout you? I'm not asking anyone to don a kippah, but just acknowledge that if it wasn't for those genes some of you wouldn't be here today.
I write the above for anyone who may misinterpret, misunderstand, or misuse some of my posts on this area; for any one who may see the next link as a contradiction; for anyone who may not value a paradox.
Stuff White People Like: a satire, or soft racism? I don't know; but it is sure damn good.
UPDATE: I just had the thought that it would be great if they would put up some sister sites: Stuff Hispanic People Like, Stuff Black People Like. There would then be some sure controversy, as I can think up quite a few stereotypical things to list. Ha!
European coloni(z)ation of Latin America resulted in a dramatic shift from a native American population to a largely mixed one, a genetic study has shown. It suggests male European settlers mated with native and African women, and slaughtered the men.
"In the past ten years the birth rate among unmarried Latinas has risen from 89 to 100 per 1,000."
I like this post over at SoundTaste entitled "Dominican Women Rock." Take pride in yourself people. Follow the links for a grand finale of photos!
Many, if not most indigenous and people of color communities around the globe wear their babies. From the continents of Asia, the Americas and Africa, indigenous women from ancient times wore their babies, mostly so that they could get back to the daily chores of life while taking care of their young. Babywearing was practical. So practical in fact, that on those continents, it is considered an act of the lower, poor classes. After all, wealthy women had people to do their chores for them, including carrying and taking care of their babies.
And it’s that fact that makes the whole babywearing movement in the U.S. so interesting. The babywearing community is mostly white and upper middle class to upper class and they better be...Many of these babywearing communities have the nasty little habit of fetishizing/exoticizing their practice. Without irony they post pictures of “traditional” babywearing across the globe and oooh and ahhh and say how cute. I even came across one post with a mama proudly and excitedly sharing how and Asian older man commented on her Asian style babywearing and according to her, he even said it in a “cute accent”.
